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Skywiper – Fanning the “flames” of cyber warfare

29

May

2012

A few weeks ago, Iran reported intensified cyber attacks on its energy sector, which they observed as a direct continuation of the Stuxnet and Duqu attacks.Over the weekend, the IR Cert (Iran’s emergency response team) published a new report, which describes this attack as “Flame” and/or “Flamer”. Some other news agencies also reported the attack […]

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DDoS Attacks on SSL: Something Old, Something New

24

Apr

2012

SSL (or TLS) secures web services such as banking, online purchases, email and remote access. Popular services such as Twitter, Hotmail and Facebook are increasingly migrating to SSL to improve security and address privacy concerns. As more transactions and services are protected by SSL, DDoS attacks on SSL secured services are on the rise and […]

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Twitter hauls spammers into court

08

Apr

2012

Twitter has taken its fight against on-line spam to the courthouse.The instant messaging powerhouse filed documents last Thursday in the US District Court in San Francisco. This brings civil action against a raft of defendants who, says Twitter:* Distribute software tools [which are] designed to faciliate abuse of the Twitter platform and [are] marketed to […]

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